Vic bombing

Part of the Basque conflict
Location| Vic, Catalonia, Spain
Date| 29 May 1991
19:30 (UTC+1)
Target| Guardia Civil barracks

Attack type

| Car bomb
Deaths| 10[1]
Injured| 44
Perpetrators| ETA

No. of participants

| 3

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Basque conflict

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* Killing of Lasa and Zabala
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* Vic bombing
* Mutxamel bombing
* 1992 Madrid bombing
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* Palma Nova bombing

A bombing attack was carried out by the Basque separatist group ETA on 29 May 1991 when a car bomb carrying more than 200 kg of explosive was detonated inside the courtyard of a Civil Guard barracks in the Catalan city of Vic, Spain. The bombing killed 10 people, including five children, and injured 44 people.[2][3]

Following the selection of Barcelona as the host of the 1992 Olympic Games, ETA launched a series of attacks in Catalonia to gain worldwide attention. Five months earlier, six police officers had been killed in a bomb attack in the city of Sabadell.[4]

The day after the bombing, two members of the ETA cell which carried out the attack were killed by the Civil Guard in a raid on a house at Lliçà d'Amunt, in the Province of Barcelona. Five members of ETA were also arrested.[5]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Aizpeolea, Luis R. (13 March 2015). "There was no Basque conflict, just ETA totalitarianism". Retrieved 17 January 2019 - via elpais.com.
2. ^ "Timeline: Major ETA Attacks in Spain". Associated Press. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
3. ^ "Vic (Barcelona) recordará hoy a las víctimas del atentado de ETA en su casa cuartel". eleconomista.es. 13 June 2009. Retrieved 2010-09-05.
4. ^ "Atentados de ETA en Cataluña". elmundo.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2010-09-05.
5. ^ "Los terroristas fueron descubiertos al cometer una cadena de 'errores de aprendiz'". elpais.com (in Spanish). 31 May 1991. Retrieved 2010-09-05.

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